Were four tracks still allowed if the run time is less than 20 mins? As the Trouser Enthusiasts mix is faded out early bringing it to 19:55 in length (annoyingly that has applied to the digital release too!!)
I think they must've misunderstood the rules, as they'd only just come in in July '98 when it was released.
Interesting that Mansun and Embrace weren’t keen on the new rule, I thought it was every indie acts dream!
A friend of mine worked at the OCC and I asked a favour and had him look up Missing You. It charted at 1,639 having sold 10 copies in week of release and 50 copies overall. It might have been that the single was genuinely cancelled and just odd copies made their way to the shops. Or it might be that the 4 track CD was chart ineligible and sales were just of the cassette (I have a sneaky feeling CD1 was cancelled as it seems harder to find than CD2 was when I was looking on eBay).
Crikey. For it to have done that badly makes me think they must've disqualified the CD! And so few copies apparently sold but there are still a few copies floating about online 25 years later.
Raspberry Swirl was released briefly in stores but was recalled very quickly afterwards, so it is likely did sell some copies during that very short window of time.
Was this rule also in place before 1998? My understanding is that before '98 singles were allowed to have up to 4 songs and the only exception to this was if the single had remixes, and all of the remixes had to be mixes of the same song, with up to 40 minutes allowed in total.
Yes that's correct
The CD-Rom didn't count as a track
Ah I get ya.
Was the limit on the number of tracks increased at any point after 2000?
